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3.00 Credits
Free Elective. The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the definition, theories, causes, processes, consequences, and social interventions in intimate violence. The course will attempt to provide insight on the phenomenon of intimate violence by examining the ways in which it affects survivors, perpetrators,, and their children. This will be accompolished by reviewing the current research as well as by exploring how intimate violence is constructed by the participants on the personal, interpersonal, and social structural level. Free elective
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This course examines the evolution, practice, and strategies of community economic development (CED) in the United States. The definition of and the history behind community economic development and its relationship to traditional economic development and community organizing are explored. Critical analyses of CED and examination of development strategies that seek to respond to these critiques are considered. The course focuses on the identification and development of skills employed in community economic development. Strategies for community economic development including housing development and rehabilitation, microenterprises and small business development, job training and workforce development, and promotion of the arts are examined. MACRO PRACTICE ELECTIVE Qualitative Research. (C) Prerequisite(s): SWRK715. Research Option. Qualitative research is particularly attuned to the perspectives of vulnerable, oppressed individuals whose voices are often muffled. This course introduces students to research approaches that help one attain a deep understanding of persons, groups, settings, processes, and problems. It explains philosophic issues guiding qualitative research and addresses research design, data collection methods, data analysis, and methods of presentation. Particular attention is given to the study of individual narratives, ethnographic field methods, and focus groups. This course shows how qualitative research approaches can be used to develop social service programs, assess programs, and to evaluate practice. Students will have the opportunity to use qualitative research strategies in class and in assignments. Prerquisite SWRK715 Christian Social Ethics. Prerequisite(s): Free Electice/Certificate in Lutheran or Christian Social Ministry course. Must be enrolled in Certificate program. This course examines the church's historic teachings and current understanding of sexuality, marriage, and family, and of controversial issues in this area through the use of theology,fiction, and films. Alienation and Reconciliation. Prerequisite(s): Free Elective/Certificate in Lutheran or Christian Social Ministry course. This course examines alienation from a theological perspective and then shifts focus to a sociological look at how alienation operates in society, particularly around the dynamics of economics, color, and gender.
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3.00 Credits
May be taken by undergraduate juniors and seniors. Permit of the instructor is necessary. Contact the registrar, Nancy Rodgers, Room B-22, School of Social Work, Caster Building. This course is offered as an interdisciplinary course with the School of Nursing. It emphasizes the physiological, psychological, social, economic and political factors accompanying and shaping the process of aging. Students examine normal and pathological changes in physical, mental and social functioning associated with aging. Course material addresses the implications for the well-being of older persons of such factors as ageism, economic deprivation, exits from social roles and various forms of "minority status," including being gay or female. Students examine the nature of interdisciplinary roles and practice.
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3.00 Credits
May be taken by undergraduate juniors and seniors. Permit of the instructor is necessary. Contact the registrar, Nancy Rodgers, Room B-22, School of Social Work, Caster Building FREE ELECTIVE. This course examines the impact of work and nonwork on the individual and society. Special emphasis is placed on examining the roles of government, voluntary agencies, management and labor in defining the purposes of social policy. Topics include: the history and philosophy of work, health issues in the workplace, women and work, labor- management relations, the democratization of the workplace, and racial and sexual discrimination in employment. FREE ELECTIVE
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Must be enrolled in D.S.W. program. The purpose of this course is to teach the basics of practice research, with an emphasis on intervention research. This course will focus on research ethics, building a conceptual framework, source credibility, question and hypothesis formulation, design, design, sampling, measurement, and scale construction and selection. Special emphasis will be placed on the development of designing feasible and practical research studies to answer questions of importance to social work practice. The course will emphasize the selection and development of outcome measures, intervention manuals, and fidelity measures. It will closely e xamine the use and development of practice guidelines, evidence-based practice and meta-analytic procedures.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SWRK804-001. Must be enrolled in D.S.W. program. This course will cover the essentials of qualitative research. Students will learn how to "situate themselves" in the research process so as to best capture the lived experience of the subjects under investigation. The course will explore the appropriate use of intensive interviews, grounded theory and ethnography. Mixed methods that employ both qualitative and quantitative approaches, will also be covered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Enrolled in D.S.W. program. The purpose of this course is to broaden and deepen participants' mastery of several theories of development, personality, and behavior that have contributed to social work's knowledge base across the decades and continue to inform clinical social work epistemology today. Drawing primarily from original sources, we will consider key assumptions, constructs, and propositions of each theory in terms of its congruence with social work's principles, values, and mission and in relation to the profession's person-in-environment perspective. In this first semester, we will study the evolution of theories central to psychodynamic thought, from Freud's early biological model of the mind, through various relational perspectives, to contemporary work in the fields of attachment and interpersonal neurobiology. This examination will constitute a case study of the manner in which theories are socially constructed and will lay the foundation for critical inquiry into the social and political biases inherent in the Western European intellectual tradition from which most theories of human behavior have emerged.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SWRK812. Must be enrolled in D.S.W. program. This course will cover a number of new therapeutic approaches and the theories and evidence that support them. For heuristic purposes, the theories considered will be divided between "Theories of Explanation," which help us to understand our clients better, and "Theories of Intervention," wich help us to understand the various helping processes. Particular attention will be paid to the processes of how intervention theories and models are developed. Some specific examples, such as cognitive-behavioral, dialectical behavior therapy, existential and other approaches will be examined. The specific orientations to intervention will also, as much as possible, be influenced by student choices and input.
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3.00 Credits
Independent studies may be arranged on an individual or small group basis between students and a faculty member. The learning objectives associated with independent studies are highly specializaed and must relate directly to the student's individualized educational plan. Students, with the faculty member, share responsibility for the design, structure and content of an independent study. No more than two independent studies may be arranged for an individual student.
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